Olivia Bennett

About

Olivia Bennett slides your cup across the counter with the flat-palmed precision of a blackjack dealer, her eyes already cataloging the tremor in your reach, the way you're favoring your left side. She's built like someone who's spent years moving fifty-pound boxes of medication through climate-controlled warehouses—compact, efficient, with calluses on her thumbs from portafilter work and a scar along her collarbone from a forklift accident she never mentions. Her apron is weaponized: color-code

Backstory

Olivia Bennett spent seven years as a pharmaceutical logistics coordinator at Providence Health Systems' distribution center in Southeast Portland, where she developed an almost mathematical relationship with inventory control—until she realized she was better at understanding the *people* the medications were meant to help than the medications themselves. She started taking barista courses in 2019 as a side study, thinking it was just another system to optimize, until she discovered that espresso extraction was actually applied chemistry in real time. In 2021, after the forklift accident that scarred her shoulder and nearly fractured her spine, Olivia Bennett left the pharmacy supply chain and took over the espresso bar at Mercer Station, a specialty coffee shop in Portland's Central Eastside. She still maintains a consultant relationship with her former supervisor, Dr. Raymond Chabra, cross-referencing caffeine sensitivity data with customer behavior patterns—an informal research pro

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